Online cinema
Shirley Temple
Audrey Nantel-Gagnon
This rare insight into the intensity of female relationships introduces 17-year-olds Margot and Amaryllis. The pair encounter jealousy, first love, heartbreak and the sense of their evolving identities and friendship.
Tout roule
Audrey Nantel-Gagnon
Melanie’s strongest wish is to have a family that stands together, that stays together. Meanwhile, her boyfriend David is about to roll away to become a long-distance truck driver. Sweet as an ice cream, Everything’s Fine opens a window on the emotions contained in a mother’s heart, who always puts others first.
De pied ferme
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
Six producers open their doors to us at the heart of a devastating agricultural crisis.
Pendant ce temps en cuisine
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
From sourcing ingredients to creating unique menus, each episode highlights the world of chefs, while exposing the realities of owning and operating a restaurant.
Rendre justice
Jacinthe Moffatt
The Honourable Juanita Westmoleland-Traoré was the first black person to be appointed to the Court of Quebec in 1999. Discover her inspiring journey and her vision of diversity in the legal profession during an intimate and touching meeting with young lawyer Shahad Salman.
Les perles de Mamita
Véronique Laveau
Mamita, 76 years old, blackfoot, strong woman and nostalgic of her youth spent in the Algerian countryside, receives each summer, Marie-Anna and her family. Between Mamita and Marie-Anna, a young Quebecer and city girl of 14, a relationship is built at a crucial period when teenagers are looking for reference points outside the parental model. A tribute to the richness of this encounter in a Provencal countryside with accents of Pagnol and the scent of lavender.
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: L’état des choses
Guylaine Dionne
Concerned with recent debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. The film features conversations with well-known women directors, including Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad and María Novaro, as well as the stories of women directors who are less visible to the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
Le coyote
Katherine Jerkovic
A chef in his heyday, Camilo is now a worn-out 50-year-old who works for a cleaning company. We can guess a personal failure in the past of this solitary immigrant settled in Montreal. But Camilo wants to get back on track and the opportunity to rediscover his culinary passion finally presents itself: a former colleague will give him a chance in a cozy restaurant in Baie-Comeau. Everything is in place for this new beginning when Camilo receives a visit from his daughter Tania, with whom he had cut ties because of his drug addiction problems. Tania tells him that he is a grandfather and asks him to take care of the child while she undergoes her umpteenth detoxification. The arrival of this grandson upsets Camilo’s plans: there will be a new beginning for him, certainly, but not the one he imagined.
Paris chouchou
Sylvie Laliberté
A very touristy video, a kind of Sylvie in Paris. Tourists are people who care about themselves and seek to improve themselves through travel. Indeed, Paris has improved me a lot.
Orison
Gina Haraszti
Black-and-white meditation on the tension between scientific knowledge and religious belief. A young scientist, man of reason, searches for his childhood feelings, his forgotten ability to believe, when his rabbi father passes away. It is a melancholic film which captures some kind of ephemeral and intangible poetry about the way we just disappear from this world The film explores the tension surrounding the correspondences between religious belief and scientific knowledge by focusing on the memories of loss and its emotional effects. It is visually influenced by the concept of wabi-sabi, a Japanese philosophy, which originates in the Japanese tea ceremony and its tools. Based on Buddhist notions, there is no bad or good, beautiful or ugly, they only exist in our preconceptions. Nothing lasts forever, and everything is in the state of either appearing or disappearing. The images capture imperfect objects and ephemeral moments, they draw our attention to a dead fly caught up in a spider’s web as a way to embrace our own mortality and unimportance in this universe and that of our loved ones too. This film…
Geek Girls
Gina Haraszti
Nerdy women – the “hidden half” of fan culture – open up about their lives in the world of conventions, video games, and other rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones. While geek communities have recently risen to prominence, very little attention is paid to geek women. Filmmaker Gina Hara, struggling with her own geek identity, explores the issue with a cast of women who live geek life up to the hilt: A feminist geek blogger, a convention-trotting cosplayer, a professional gamer, a video-game designer, and a NASA engineer. Through their personal experiences in the rich cultural explosion of nerdom, Geek Girls shows both the exhilaration of newfound community and the ennui of being ostracized. These women, striving in their respective professions and passions, face the cyberbullying, harassment, and sexism that permeate the culture and the industry at large. A rich conversation-starter for any class on Pop Culture and Feminism.
Bonbons bijoux
Sylvie Laliberté
“A very self-filmed and narcissistic video composed of brief chattering sequences, since the truth is short. And the frame? I am the frame. Bonbons bijoux also transports us into the intimacy of the home. The artist uses the ridiculousness of language to underline the difficult presence of the direct, the self-referential, the authentic. Bonbons bijoux takes us to the grating borders of the “suave feminine”. The ingenue, the naughty, the naïve get rid of their negative connotations. By making incongruous associations of words, objects and ideas, the artist blurs the lines, disintegrating the preconceived limits between girl and woman, between naivety and perversity.”